Software companies and cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Figma, and Workday are launching new discount programs for AI products for customers and consulting partners. Customers were previously plagued by changes in pricing models and are exhausted by this. The customer previously raised their budget to purchase products such as Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, while cutting other expenses to pay for this additional expense. Today, companies are becoming more careful when purchasing AI tools. Software vendors instead charge AI service fees based on usage or number of completed tasks, which may drive up costs. Many companies have complained quite a bit about this. For example, an executive of a multinational manufacturing company with a market capitalization of over 40 billion US dollars said that after Microsoft adjusted the billing method for GitHub Copilot, a code assistant, and changed to pay-as-you-go, the company was provided with a grace period of at least one month, and the company can still pay according to the seat subscription system during this period. After this pricing adjustment, the manufacturing company needed to pay an additional $150,000 to Microsoft every month for employees to use the tool. After implementing the pay-as-you-go billing policy, Microsoft also gave away tens of thousands of US dollars of free credits every month to the company for three consecutive months. However, the executive said that due to this billing change, the team is considering migrating code development work to Anthropic's Claude Code and SpaceX's Cursor.

Software companies and cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Figma, and Workday are launching new discount programs for AI products for customers and consulting partners. Customers were previously plagued by changes in pricing models and are exhausted by this. The customer previously raised their budget to purchase products such as Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, while cutting other expenses to pay for this additional expense. Today, companies are becoming more careful when purchasing AI tools. Software vendors instead charge AI service fees based on usage or number of completed tasks, which may drive up costs. Many companies have complained quite a bit about this. For example, an executive of a multinational manufacturing company with a market capitalization of over 40 billion US dollars said that after Microsoft adjusted the billing method for GitHub Copilot, a code assistant, and changed to pay-as-you-go, the company was provided with a grace period of at least one month, and the company can still pay according to the seat subscription system during this period. After this pricing adjustment, the manufacturing company needed to pay an additional $150,000 to Microsoft every month for employees to use the tool. After implementing the pay-as-you-go billing policy, Microsoft also gave away tens of thousands of US dollars of free credits every month to the company for three consecutive months. However, the executive said that due to this billing change, the team is considering migrating code development work to Anthropic's Claude Code and SpaceX's Cursor.